Search Results - "Mason, P. V."
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Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-03-2010)“…Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) is a bolometric polarimeter designed to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the…”
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Self-calibration of BICEP1 three-year data and constraints on astrophysical polarization rotation
Published in Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology (24-03-2014)Get full text
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A flat Universe from high-resolution maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation
Published in Nature (London) (27-04-2000)“…The blackbody radiation left over from the Big Bang has been transformed by the expansion of the Universe into the nearly isotropic 2.73 K cosmic microwave…”
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Characterization of the BICEP Telescope for High-precision Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-03-2010)“…The Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) experiment was designed specifically to search for the signature of inflationary…”
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A Millimeter-wave Galactic Plane Survey with the BICEP Polarimeter
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2011)“…In order to study inflationary cosmology and the Milky Way Galaxy's composition and magnetic field structure, Stokes I, Q, and U maps of the Galactic plane…”
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SPIDER OPTIMIZATION. II. OPTICAL, MAGNETIC, AND FOREGROUND EFFECTS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2011)“…SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with degree-scale resolution over a large…”
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Closed cycle cooling of infrared detectors to 250 mK
Published in Cryogenics (Guildford) (01-02-2002)“…We have designed and built a cryogenic system which uses no expendable liquid cryogens and consists of a three-stage cryocooler together with a three-stage…”
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The susceptibility of incoherent detector systems to cryocooler microphonics
Published in Cryogenics (Guildford) (01-08-1999)“…Mechanical cryocoolers will be used to provide 4 K cooling for the HFI bolometer instrument in the Planck Surveyor mission for measurement of the anisotropies…”
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Towards microbial tissue engineering?
Published in Trends in biotechnology (Regular ed.) (01-08-2004)“…Tissue engineering involves the creation of multicellular tissues from individual cells. It was previously perceived that tissues were only formed by higher…”
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Construction of artificially structured microbial consortia (ASMC) using dielectrophoresis: Examining bacterial interactions via metabolic intermediates within environmental biofilms
Published in Journal of microbiological methods (2006)“…The construction of artificial biofilms with defined internal architectures is described. Bacterial cells are suspended in a low conductivity medium, guided to…”
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Colonial architecture in mixed species assemblages affects AHL mediated gene expression
Published in FEMS microbiology letters (01-03-2005)“…Many bacterial species produce metabolites that accumulate in the extracellular environment and induce specific transcriptional responses in producing cells…”
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In-flight gain monitoring of SPIDER's transition-edge sensor arrays
Published 16-06-2022“…Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2022) Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain…”
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A Simulation-Based Method for Correcting Mode Coupling in CMB Angular Power Spectra
Published 21-04-2022“…ApJ 928(2):109, 2022 Modern CMB analysis pipelines regularly employ complex time-domain filters, beam models, masking, and other techniques during the…”
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The XFaster Power Spectrum and Likelihood Estimator for the Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background Maps
Published 24-05-2021“…We present the XFaster analysis package. XFaster is a fast, iterative angular power spectrum estimator based on a diagonal approximation to the quadratic…”
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A New Limit on CMB Circular Polarization from SPIDER
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2017)“…We present a new upper limit on cosmic microwave background (CMB) circular polarization from the 2015 flight of Spider, a balloon-borne telescope designed to…”
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Particle response of antenna-coupled TES arrays: results from SPIDER and the lab
Published 13-02-2020“…Future mm-wave and sub-mm space missions will employ large arrays of multiplexed Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers. Such instruments must contend with…”
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DEGREE-SCALE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS FROM THREE YEARS OF BICEP1 DATA
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-03-2014)“…BICEP1 is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed specifically to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background at degree…”
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The XFaster Power Spectrum and Likelihood Estimator for the Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background Maps
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2021)“…Abstract We present the XFaster analysis package, a fast, iterative angular power spectrum estimator based on a diagonal approximation to the quadratic Fisher…”
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Diversity and linkage of replication and mobilisation genes in Bacillus rolling circle-replicating plasmids from diverse geographical origins
Published in FEMS microbiology ecology (01-11-2002)“…Abstract The prevalence, diversity and linkage of pTA-related plasmid rep and mob genes in 18 plasmids from three closely related species of Bacillus from…”
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The XFaster Power Spectrum and Likelihood Estimator for the Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background Maps
Published in The Astrophysical journal (25-11-2021)“…We present the XFaster analysis package, XFaster is a fast, iterative angular power spectrum estimator based on a diagonal approximation to the quadratic…”
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